Cryptic and Hard

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Cryptic

Cryptic adjective - Being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain.
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Hard and cryptic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Cryptic".
Nearby Words: crypt, cryptograph, cryptography, cryptographic, cryptically

Hard

Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
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Cryptic and hard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cryptic" instead an adjective "Hard".
Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

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  • Video Game / Tales of the Abyss The conversations with Lorelei, and the Score itself, are considered cryptic and become hard to understand not because they're metaphorical or mystical but because people expect them to be.
    Source: Video Game / Tales of the Abyss
  • Cain and Abel It's hard to avoid in Rozen Maiden, where There Can Be Only One of seven sisters that survives (unless that cryptic statement at the end of season two has anything to say about it).
    Source: Cain and Abel
  • Luckily, members of the fandom have managed to translate and give synopses of these works, but if you don't bother doing your homework, you're going to have a hard time making sense of some of the more cryptic allusions.
    Source: Continuity Lock-Out
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